Introduction to Social Psych
Social Psychology Defined
What is: the study of how the presence of others affects our
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Conformity Defined
What is Acting and thinking like people around us
Blatant Bias Defined
What is, Conscious beliefs, feelings, and behavior that people are perfectly willing to admit, are mostly hostile, and openly favor their own group.
Teachings from Jimmy Kimmel
What is, Childhood Cognitive Development, specifically pre-operational stage, also operant conditioning, obedience, etc.
Psychology Defined
What is, the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes.
Happiness relies heavily on this
What are the Quality of our Relationships
Obedience Defined
What is An individual’s compliance when given an order or command from someone in a position of authority
Implicit Bias Defined
What is, a negative, unconscious attitude, against a specific social group
Teachings from Tundra
What is, Operant Conditioning
Types of Learning
What is, Conditioning (Operant and Classical), and Observation
Research design, best practice
What is Naturalistic Observation
Why do people Conform? (3 reasons)
What is, Normative Influence, Informational Influence, and Descriptive Norms
The major differences between Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination
What is, bias of thought/cognition, emotion, and behavior
Teachings from Netflix: Memory Explained
What is, Memory Palace technique, Stages and Types of Memory, Eye-Witness testimony flaws, Memory flaws/traces
4 Types and 3 Stages of Memory
Stages: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
The 6 Levels of Analysis
What are Culture/Environment, Relationships/Groups, Behavior, Thoughts/Feelings/Perception, Physiology, Chemistry/DNA
Famous study and its findings on Obedience
What is Milgram's Study, 65% of people obeyed in totality
The 2 Dimensions of the Stereotype Content Model
What is Warmth and Competence
Teachings from Dr. Alison Gopnik, what do babies think?
What is, scientific-hypothesis testing done by young children at play, their developing theory of mind, species' length of development=intelligence, creative/innovative thinking processes
The Lobes of the Brain and their Functions
What are,
Frontal = Decision Making, Higher-Order thinking
Temporal = Sound and Smell
Parietal = Touch and Taste
Occipital = Sight
Fundamental Attribution Error
Provide an example of this phenomenon
Name 1 positive (benefit) and 1 negative (dark side) to Obedience
...examples
What is, evolutionary mechanism, social beings, belongingness/in-group needs, heuristics, etc.
Teachings from Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
What is, Memory is like a Wikipedia page (constructed and reconstructed)
5 Major Research Designs
What are, Experimental, Correlational, Quasi-Experimental, Longitudinal, Qualitative